| 单词 | to ride forecastle in |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ride forecastle in 2. The fore part of a ship (see quots. 1704, 1867). to ride forecastle in, i.e. with bows under. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] foreshipc1000 stam1336 bilynge?a1400 forestam?a1400 boat-head1485 head1485 prore1489 forecastle1490 steven1512 forepart1526 nose1538 prow1555 stem1555 forebow1569 beak-head1579 galion1604 bow1626 fore-beaka1656 forebudding1811 prora1847 snout1853 forward1892 sharp end1948 society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > make progress > into heavy sea to ride forecastle in1719 bury1841 pile-drive1898 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxxi. 116 Theyr chyeff maryner..was halfe a slepe vpon the forcastell. a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. D.vi The fore castell of my shyp Shall glyde and smothely slyp Out of the wawes wod Of the stormy flod. a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 232 Sometimes the one end, as the fore-castle, sometimes the other, as the sterne. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Fore-castle of a Ship is that part where the Fore-Mast stands, and 'tis divided from the rest of the Floor by a Bulk-head; that part of the Fore-castle which is aloft, and not in the Hold, is called the Prow. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 10 Our Ship rid Forecastle in. 1794 Ld. Nelson 26 Oct. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) I. 499 We are riding forecastle in. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Forecastle..is now applied in men-of-war to that part of the upper deck forward of the after-shroud. < as lemmas |
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